UShistory-c-block - Japanese-American Internment Camps- WWII

The definition of japanese internment is: The forced relocation of Japenese Nationals and Japanese Americans during WWII.

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In the first half of the 20th century, Californina experienced a wave of anti-Japanese prejudice, in part because of the concentration of new immigrants. This was distinct from the Japanese American experience in the broader United States. Over 90% of Japanese immigrants to the USA settled in California, where labor and farm competition fed into general anti-Japanese sentiment. In 1905, California's anti-miscegenation law outlawed marriages between Caucasians and Japanese and other ethnicities of East Asian ancestry.
Between Febuary and November 1942, approximately 120,000 residents of Japanese decent were evacuated from their homes and relocated by the American Government after Pearl Harbor
These people were sent to government War Relocation Authority camps in remote areas of the West, South, and Southwest of the United States.
Many people of the Japanese decent spent the rest of WWII in these camps.
Issei and Nisei Japanese were interned. Meaning first generation and second generation Japanese

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The internment was Authorized by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was president at the time.

Life in camps was extremely harsh and difficult

"Internees" - meaning those who were interned, lost thier jobs , were cut out of their social networks, were omitted from educational opportunities and were removed from mainstream life.
Angered and bitter they would direct thier hostility toward one another.
Riots between Pro Japanese and Pro American groups often beroke out within these camps.
Many if not all of the internees thought thier rights as humans and certainly Americans was blatently violated.

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Internees were called Aliens

Aliens were stripped of thier rights by executive order 9006
It wasnt untill the 1970's that the U.S. government even recognized any wrongdoing.
1976 President Gerald R. Ford proclaimed that the evacuation was wrong.
In 1988,Congresss passed and President Reagan signed legislation which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. Government. The legislation said that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership".
In September of 1987, when the U.S. House of Representatives formally apologized to the former evacuees and provided 1.2 billion in compensation for those who were interned.